Can Bloom Filters in BigTable be used to filter based only on row ID?

[Niv Dayan]

BigTable uses row-column pairs as keys to insert into its bloom filters. This means that a query can use these filters for a point read that specifies a row-column pair.

Now, suppose we have a query to get all columns of a row based only on the row ID. As far as I can tell, this query does not know in advance what are the columns that belong to the row, and so it may not be able to use the bloom filters as it cannot enumerate the possible row-column pairs. As a result, such a query may not be able to use the bloom filters, and so it would be less efficient.

In theory, BigTable could already be addressing this problem by also inserting just the row ID into the bloom filters, but I can't tell if the current implementation does this or not.

This question may have importance for designing efficient queries to run on BigTable. Any hints would be wonderful.

Note that I asked this question on stack overflow on this link: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/54280508/can-bloom-filters-in-bigtable-be-used-to-filter-based-only-on-row-id. I am asking again here as there seems to be a high level of expertise here on BigTable in particular.